Installing the Oracle Software

This section contains the procedure that you need to install Oracle software.

How to Install the Oracle Software

1. Become superuser on a cluster member.
2. If you plan to install the Oracle software on a cluster file system, start the Oracle Solaris Cluster software and become the owner of the device group.

   If you plan to install the Oracle software at another location, omit this step.

   For more information about installation locations, see Preparing the Nodes and Disks.

3. Install the Oracle software.

   Before you start the Oracle installation, ensure that the system resources required for Oracle have been configured. Log in as oracle to ensure ownership of the entire directory before you perform this step. See the appropriate Oracle installation and configuration guides for instructions about how to install Oracle software.

   You could use Oracle Solaris Resource Management (SRM) to ensure that the kernel parameters are set to at least the minimum values that Oracle requires. For more information about setting the Oracle kernel parameters, see How to Set the Oracle Kernel Parameters. After the system resources have been configured for Oracle you can start the installation itself.

How to Set the Oracle Kernel Parameters

The default project is modified to contain the resources required for Oracle as the RGM uses the default project for running the data service. If you want to use a specific SRM project for running Oracle, you must create that project and configure the system resources in that project using the same procedure. Specify the project name instead of default. When you configure the resource group or resource for the Oracle server, specify that project name in the corresponding property of the resource group or resource.

1. Display the settings for the default project.

   phys-X# prctl -i project default

2. If no kernel parameters are set, or if any kernel parameters are not set to the minimum required value for Oracle as shown in the following table, set the parameter.

   phys-X# projmod -s -K "parameter=(priv,value,deny)" default

   
   

   Oracle Kernel Parameter Minimum Required Value process.max-sem-nsems 256 project.max-sem-ids 100 project.max-shm-ids 100 project.max-shm-memory 4294967295

   See Oracle Database Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Oracle Solaris for more information about these parameters.

3. Verify the new settings.

   phys-X# prctl -i project default